The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-28
1900 HORSES ROASTED.
OAR STABLES AND FIVE TENEMENT
HOUSES BURNED.

The Belt Line Stables, Five Tenement
Houses and Factory Burned in New
York-Animals Roasted Alive-Many
= Scores Rendered Homeless - Only
one Life Lost.
New YORK, May 27.-Flames broke out
at so O'Clock this morning in the south
end of the Belt Line stables on Tenth ave
nue.. between Fifty third and Fifty-fourth
streets. The building was entirely de-
stroyed with l 600 horses and nearly all the
cars in the building. The flames were first
seen bv one of the night hands, who gave
the alarm The flames spread rapidly and
soon completely enveloped the building in
their folds.
NO TINE TO SAVE ANYTHING.
The building was a five-story building,
and covered the square or block reaching
back to Eleventh avenue. The upper stories
were occupied by the repair shops and
were full of combustible material, which
blazed up as soon as touched by the fire The
offices were situated in the southeast corner.
They were in flames so quickly that there
was no chance to save the books of the COM
pany.
In the stables were over 1000 horses and
several hundred cars Only ten horses and
two cars were saved The rest were all
burned up. At o'clock this morning the
walls of the building fell in with a terrible
crash, sending millions of sparks. and
blazing pieces Of wood high in the air.
A GENERAL ALARM.
The fire alarm of the three SKIES had been
made as soon as the fire chief arrived at the
scene, and engines from all parts of the city,
with the water tower and the hook and
ladder companies, were rapididly coming
FRUSTRATED BY THE INTENSE HEAT.
The heat from the flaming building was
50 great that several tiremen and two po-
licemen were prostrated.
FLAMES SPREAD RAPIDLY.
At 1:45 a. m. the flames, aided by the
strong, high wind which was prevailing, had
leaped across the wide avenue and caught
the whole block on the east side, between
Fifty-third and Fifty fourth streets.
TERRoR-sTRIcKEN TENANTS.
The block was composed of six-story tene-
ment houses and coal yard. The terror
| stricken tenants poured out of the building
like swarm of bees, praying, fighting and
cursing by turns.
BEYOND CONTROL.
The scene of terror was indescribable; the
buildings burned rapidly, though the fronts
facing the avenue were of brown stone By
$50 they were completely gutted. The
flames had spread to the entire square
block over to Ninth avenue.
At $50 this morning the block below had
caught on fire and was blazing furiously.
FLEEING FROM THE FLAMES.
The streets in the vicinity for blocks away
were filed with the frightened, crying and
woe-stricl1en tenants fleeing from the
ravages of the flames. The fire attracted
thousands of awe-stricken spectators.
HoMLEsLEss POOR PEOPLE.
The tenement houses were thickly peo-
pied Every floor had from four to five
families. All were poor people who will
lose all their property.
CONTROLLED AT LAST
The fne was got under control at o'clock
this morning.
LOSSES AND DAMAGES.
On the stables. with their contents and
tle frame houses on the opposite side of
Tenth avenue and down Fiffy-fourth street
which were destroyed, the loss will not be
much less than 81, 100000.
RESCUED BUT TO DIE.
Elizabeth Walsh, 70 years old, one of the
occupants Of the house No. $40 West Fifty
fourth street, which was burned, was sick in
hef ted, The police rescued her and brought
her to the sidewalk, where she expired from
'he fright and shock.
OVER 81 100000 LOSS.
Later estimates show that the loss by fire
vii not be covered by 81 l,0o0,000
The stables are complete wreck. The
'enelnents on the streets facing the stables
We're also burned. There were something
Ike 400 horses in the stables, and only
about 100 of these were saved.
Ihe loss is now estimated at 81, ,325 900
A SCENE OF DEsoLATIoN AND RUIN.
The fire ragged from /: 80 till daybreak.
me sun rose upon scene of desolation, but
with the tired iiremen masters of the still
suon. The bodies of the 200 horses that
nad been Smothered or burned alive were
roasting in the ruins Of the stables One
Wig OF the Jacob News silk factory in Fifty
iourth street, and the five brick tenernents
N that block have disappeared. Scarcely
atrace was left of any of them, save the
corner tenement on Tenth avenue, the front
u which yet stands. A row of frame
ro9kerles on Tenth avenue, fronting the
Saoies, had been wiped out, and OF the
Santy settlement all the way down Fifty
1lfo Soa street, from Tenth avenue to within
Wy Wy leet OF Eleventh avenue, nothing was
gtG save the blackened rocks and the rows
y dead goats, dogs, pigs and horses that had
seel burned to death in the vain scramble
Tor life.
HEARTRENDING SCENES.
More than 100 families, TO great extent
lspy poor people, had been rendered home
S ~ ana one woman had persisted from the
nai nsIo and excitement. ANY number Of
lrople, including the firemen and police,
heat. ~ '''S
POOR PEOPLE LOSE THEIR ALL.
men women and children are wandering
SSlnliesSly over the ruins of their wrecked
,Sa ,aSonies, 6ereft Of their all, and bewldered at
t5e, Ie sudden and crushing blow Their losses,
ho ougn mostly insignificant in amount, We're
'le accumulation of lifetime.
SMALL INSURANCE.
m ine insurance will be less than s500,000.
e,.s me street car company carried $3l0000 in
ufance, divided among l5O companies.
ANOTHER CAR STABLE BURNED.
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